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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12
A Dispe11ed DIFFUSION.

The shining metallic incrustation found
upon the teeth of some of the cattle
which are pastured along the banks of
the Carson river has been popularity pro-
nounced to be coating of gold and sill
yer deposited upon the teeth from the
mineral impregnation of The-water and
grass, attracted through the magnetic
action Of the animals body. Some of
this bullion incrustation or deposit was
submitted recently to Professor F. E.
Fielding, chief assayer at the Consoi-
dated California and Virginia assay of
fee, in this city. Upon critical analysis
of the material he pronounces it to be
pure calcium of sulphide, with not the
least trace of either gold, silver or quick
silver. Thus another hopeful delusion is
dispelled, and the contemplated source
of revenue from scraping the animals
teeth periodically rendered useless and
worthless. Virginia City Enterprise.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12
NILDER'S STEAMSHIP CO.,
gLimitedI.
STEAMER KINAU,
CLorenzen, Commander,

Leaves Honolulu per following schedule,
touching Lahaina, Maalaea, Makena, Mahu.
kona, Kaw alhae LaupahoehOe. Hilo and keauhou:
Commencing on MONDAY. July &c, 1886, and
on every alternate Monday at p. M, the kinau
viii make the VOLCANO TRIP, reaching Keau-
hOu Wednesday morning, where horses and
carriages are in waiting to convey passengers to
the VOLCANO HOUSE five miles in the saddle
and nine miles by carriage).
Passengers by this route will have two days
and two nights at the VOLCANO HOUSE.
TICKETS FOR THE ROUND TRIP TO THE
VOLCANO, FIFTY DOLLARS WHICH Pa Us
ALL CHARGES.
The Kinau will arrive in Honolulu Sunday
mornings Volcano trips. On HIlO trips, viii
leave Honolulu on Tuesdays, and return Saturday
morning.
PASSENGER TRAINS will connect with the
Kinau at Mahukona
The Kinau WILL TOUCH at Honokaia and
Paauhau on down trips from Hilo for Passengers
If signal is made from the shore.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12

A. LAPEL has a knowing cat in his grist
mill that has been there long enough to be
familiar with the business Upon opening
his place of business one morning Mr. LAPEL
found the cat had caught a rat and placed
the same on the scales to be weighed The
slide on the weighing bar was at the exact
weight of the rat-two pounds. Whether the
cat climbed the scales after placing the rat
on the platform and actually weighed the
rat Mr.. LAPEL is not prepared to say
Scranton (Vt.) Courier.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12
Direct Descendants OF Aaron.

Among the few "Aaronide" Hebrew
families which have preserved some
thing like detailed genealogy is that
of the chief rabbi of Great Britain, DIR.
Nathan Adler. Until comparatively
rece:tt period, it is said, complete ge-
theological tree, reaching back to Aaron
the high priest, was in possession of
the family, but it is now lost.-New York
Tribune
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12
An Appropriate Diet.

Il smelt cake baking this morning, Maria
What kind was it?" inquired Mr. links.
"Sponge cake, dear. Shall put some on the
table for dinnerg No" said links, gloom
lily, save it till some of your relations come
to see rs again. tin be more appropriate -
Merchant Traveller.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12
Bismarck and His Dog.

When Bismarck goes to Gastein he al
ways stays on the upper floor of an old
haber-dasher's shop adjoining the Babe
schloss. There is little garden attached
to the house, and here in tent the Iron
Chancellor sits for hours with his favorite
dog, the Reichshund, crouching at his
feet.-Chicago Tribune.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12
A Guilty vonsc1ence makes Cowards

"Hey, therel You've got my umbrella I've
found it at last, have II" exclaimed a large
sized man, in loud and menacing tone, as
he stood in a doorway on one of the principal
streets rainy morning recently while a
number of pedestrians were hurrying past A
cozen men turned at once on hearing him,
and came toward him, holding out their UNI
brellas and making p:ofuss apologies. With
the air Of an injured individual, the large
man selected fine silk one from among the
rumber. and the procession moved on again.
Chicago Tribune.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-01-12
Wealth of the English church.

During the last thirty years the ag-
gregate of the personal estates sworn to
as belonging TO deceased bishops of the
English church, was $11, 075, 900. As
forty have died during this period, the
average wealth was Se76, S75. At the
same time there are thousands of brill
liant and devoted men serving as curates
whose salaries are smaller than those of
a lackeY.
, 1887-07-15

The doctors are agreed as regards bath.
ing precisely after their usual manner OF
agreement-that is to say, they agree
only in the most vague and general man,
ner: TOO frequent bathing may be
very injurious" says one; The princi,
pal danger is from staying in the water
too long at a time" says another; Five
minutes is enough" a y a third; ''Oh,
but that is absurdly short" objects a
fourth; and so on until the seeker after
authoritative rules is tempted to fall back
upon the instinct of boyhood and Ego in
as often and ''stay in" as long as he
pleases.
The fact is hat no two constitutions
are alike, no waters are alike, and no
two days are alike. One person can stay
in the water for hours, another only a
few minutes. 1t is a universally safe
rule to leave the water on the first indi-
cation of chilliness. There is a wide
distinction between cold and chill, though
the first is sure to induce the second in
short order; but n plunge may be taken
into tolerably cold water with pleasurable
results, if the bath be not prolonged until
Chilliness sets in.-New York CONNER
Cial Advertiser.
, 1887-07-15
A Fine shooting Watch.

The shooting match at the fair grounds
Yesterday afternoon resulted in the defeat
of Mr.. Geo. East, Jno. Schuneman Kill
ling t%wenty-four 1--we pigeons of a pos
sible twenty-five, while the loser missed
two birds. 1t was an exciting contest
throughout, and at times the large au-
dieuce eheered the fine exhibitions of
craftsmanship which were given by the
shooters, The two records compare very
favorably with the best ever made with
live BIRDS as targets, and several wealthy
sports about the city are DESTROYS of pack
ing Mr.. Schuneman in a matcR with
either Bogardus or Graham, the English
champion. A majority of the birds killed
were rapid and strong flyers and difficult
to shoot.
While there is no doubt that Mr..
Shuneman won the match, he has not
yet received the 800 purse, his contestant
having raised the point that as the winner
did not deposit his stake until the match
was well under way, he is not entitled to
the prize. The question will be referred
to some leading sporting paper. Not a
little interest is taken in the controversy
bY outsiders and members of the organi-
cations which the shootists representative
Cheyenne Gun Club and the Magic City
Gun Club.
, 1887-07-15

That is to say, your lungs. Also all
your breathing machinery. Very wonder
full machinery it is. Not only the larger
air passages, but the thousands of little
tubes and cavities leading from them.
When these are cloggcd and choked
with matter which ought not to be there,
your lungs cannot do hall their work.
A nd what they do, they cannot do well
Call it cold, cough, Group, Pneumonia.
catarrh, consumption, or any of the fam.
lily of throat and nose and head and lung
distractions, all are bad. All ought to
be got rid of. There is Just one sure way
to get rid of them. That is to take
Boschee's German Syrup, which any
druggist will sell you at IS cents a bottle.
Even if everything else has failed you
you may depend upon this for certain.
, 1887-07-15

One of the hardest things in detective
life is for the officer to be obliged to re-
port on family matters. No matter how
long he has been in the business, or how
~ffreproof he has become, the detective who
can make a report which he knows will
break up a family and bring wretched-
ness to half a dozen persons is a scarce
article. That is, he will report TO his
chief verbally or by letter, and thus let
the information get to those who hunger
for it and yet dread to hear the truth.
To face a husband when the horror of
dishonor is upon him-to report to n wife
that her husband long since ceased to love
her. and that her only remedy is the
scandal of a divorce suits a position no
one in the service wants to fill a second
time.
A fair share of the detective business of
every city in the land hinges upon family
matters, and the work done seldom APP
pears in print, or if the newspaper re-
porters get hold of the circumstance, the
particulars are kept away from them.
For a long term of years my assignments
as a detective connected with the force of
one of our large cities were entirely of
this character, and some of the incidents
can be related without injury to any ones
feelings. l did not associate with the
criminal detectives at all, and the ma
jority of them did not know me by
name. -New York Sun.
, 1887-07-15
THE TIcHBoRNE CURSE.

The Punishment Which Followed the
Discontinuance of the Dole to the Poor.
1t seems that in the time of Henry II
a Sir Roger Tichborne married an heir
ess named Mabel de Lymerstone. She
proved to be a Lady Bountiful, always
soliciting her knight to give to the poor.
These entreaties he constantly refused
until, when she became bedridden, he
tauntingly offered her for the poor as
much ground as she could crawl around.
She actually succeeded in covering fit
teen acres-hence the name of the field.
Before Lady Mabel died she desired
that the rental of these fifteen acres be
given annually to the poor every Lady
Day, March %, in the shape of small
loaves. She said:
'H any Tichborne deprives the poor
of this dole the family shall be punished
by the fulfillment of my curse. May the
house then fall, the name change and
misfortune come. The fulfillment shall
be foreshadowed by a generation of
seven sons and then one of seven daugh-
ters."
Toward the end of the last century the
baronet of hat day was petitioned by the
neighboring gentry to stop the dole as a
bad precedent. He complied.
In 1902 this same baronet, the father
of seven sons, pulled down the mansion,
which he said was inconvenient and de-
cayed. The tower was so solid that gun
powder had to be used to make it fall.
He was succeeded by a son who had
seven daughters. The title next success
lively passed to his two brothers. The
last of these-father of the drowned Sir
Roger and of Sir Alfred, sire of the pres
ent baronet-did change the family name
by making it the double one of Doughty
~Tichborne, for which the royal license
was, obtained.
Then anne the misfortune-the mystic
rious death of Sir Roger, the almost ruin
GUS lawsuit, the birth of the present bar
onet after his fathers death and the
humiliation of the boys grandmother,
Lady Tichborne STOPPING to fraud and
perjury in supporting the Orion claim
AM.
Curiously enough this dole proved a
turning point in convicting the claimant.
He swore that it was distributed in silver,
whereas the jurors decided if he had
been the heir he must have known that
it was in loaves. The dole has, however,
been resumed, substituting sacks of flour
for baked bread.-Nev York Herald.
, 1887-07-15

Perhaps you think we organ grinders have
an easy time of it. Well, you try carrying one
of these heavy instruments around all day
and you may change your mind. Does it
payi Wen, that depends upon your capital.
You see, the majority of us hire the organs
by the day. An organ playing the latest
and most popular tunes costs more than this
old thing I've got here, which only grinds out
what you Americans call chestnuts. or course
il you can give the public good music you at
tract a larger crowd and run the chance
ofcollecting more pennies. l lave taken
in as much as 81 and IS in a day
with a new organ. l make more money
in the poorer parts of the city. The
people in the tenement houses treat me
the best. There are only three or four places
in New York where you can hire organs and
so they charge US pretty well for them. You
can get an old organ like this for 81 a day,
but those playing the latest tunes come as
high as So and $3.50 a day. Yes, you can
hire monkeys too, but I've found them more
Of n nuisance han anything else. They
please the children, but they are apt to get
into trouble by biting some one or stealing
something when they go into the windows
after pennies. A monkey is a treacherous
beast and you never know what he is going
to do next-Brooklyn Eagle "Rambler."
, 1887-07-15
NIghtIngaIes in RussIa.

That man must be very sleepy who
would complain of being kept awake by
n~ightingales. These birds inhabit the
thickets around my hotel. About II
O'Clock the first night of our arrival one
of them awoke me from a sound sleep.
A window stood ajar and music flooded
the chamber. The singer was a soloist.
Not a sound of any kind interrupted his
performance. Even the crIckets stopped
TO listen. Somebody has taken the
trouble to jot down every note and trill
of the nightingale's song. 1t may be re-
produced, I believe, on the upper octaves
of the piano; but it car never be made to
sound as ravishing as the ''wood notes
Wild Of hat bird in those bushes. Per-
baps imagination has something to do
with the effect. Memory quickly recalls
fugitive scraps of poetry about nightin-
gales, and one listens to them the more
greedily. Suddenly the music, which
was so enchanting, woke echoes far and
near. Other nightingales, us if accept
ing a challenge, responded to the soloist.
1t was OK much of a good thing. Thu
sweet sounds ran together and became
confused. What had been perfect as an
air was discord as a chorus. In the midst
of it the chief singer ceased. A few
minutes later and all was quiet.-Round
About TO Moscow.
, 1887-07-15
The Diversions of swelldom.

1t is getting to be a diversion with our
swells to visit the Bowery variety theaters. 1
am fond of the variety theater myself There
is always some good acting of its kind To he
seen there, and even when the acting il not
over fine, or the fun over refined, it is anus
ing. SO L drop in for an idle hour once in a
whue ana see an act or two, watch a clog
dance ana listen to a banjo solo. And | have
noticed lately that some faces not unfamiliar
TO me on the avenue shed the light of their
patronage on the playhouse of the proletartat.
l can remember some years ago when it was
the fad with the riskier young women of
upper tendon to put on their thickest wells
and have themselves escorted to certain re.
sorts on Sixth avenue, not unknown to the
police. The variety theater is rather mild
excitement after this, and is not like5y To
bring about such a scene as | once shared i'm at
the Empire Garden, when a certain lively
broker of my acquaintance discovered his
wife and his sister with a couple of friends
ana a Columbia college brother for escort,
taking in the revels OF the night.
But when beauty and fashion lend their
countenance to the dog fight and cock pit.
there is no philosophy in being astonished at
any minor eccentricity they may indulge in.
Several times during the winter Just passed a
young churChman, whom l know and who
has a fancy for sporting dogs and fowl, has
entertained his friends, male and female, with
the diversions of the fancy. He owns a hand
some place in the upper part of the town.
whose situation is quite isolated enough to
hold 1t from interference from the police.
The arrangement of his cellar as a field for
the bellicose exercises of his pets and the nc
commodation of his guests is quite ingenious.
l have never taken advantage of his invita-
lions to participate in these festivals. L have
no fancy for the sport. But l know that he
has had full houses several times since last
Christmas and that the guests who enjoyed
his hospitality would be very much en-
barassed so see their names in print.-Alfred
Trumble in New York News.
, 1887-07-15

The Chinese play today just as they
did 1000 years ago. The art as it was
then has been petritied ''by a fantastic
system of mental philosophy and an ada
mantine conservatism" So that in con
sidering the condition of the musical art
in China today we have an actual sight
of what was the system and practice at
the time of Plato. 1.-The refinement in
their knowledge of music, " said the lee
turer, lis mostly on its metaphysical
side. The Chinese sages could and did
publish doctrine touching music which
is golden doctrine in the art of today
but the sounds they produce are a ''din
in which traces of order and of melodi-
Gus sequence are not discernible except
by a very patient and a very well trained
ear. A barbarism rests on the music
still, and to add to the many paradoxes
which the Chinese hold before us, they
concede that the art of today is a degen-
crate one, but speak with pride of one
now lost which flourished at a time
when Greece was yet shrouded in pre-
historic gloom. H. E. Krehbiel's Ad-
dress.
, 1887-07-15

Grabs, which are supposed to shed
their shells every year, do not often shed
them after they have attained their full
size, and the creatures become victims to
barnacles and all sorts of marine growths
that fasten themselves upon the shell. A
remarkable example of this may be seen
in the British museum, where has been
placed an old crab of the edible species,
with some half a dozen oysters of a large
size fixed to its back, which load, ever
increasing, the crab was doomed to carry
to the end of its days. Another curious
specimen preserved is that of a hairy
crab, which, though not larger itself than
a walnut, is saddled with a sponge as big
as a mans fist.-New York Star.
, 1887-07-15

The reds now lead among the colors in
London. Along the principal streets and
in the parks ones eyes are constantly
stung with the reflected flashes Of the
shades, crimson hats, crimson curtains,
ard even crimson skirts. flash and flare
wherever ones look is turned. The eff
feet after a little is rcpellent and loud.
There is a hot, angry obtrusiveness about
1t which wants softening down almost to
invisibility before it looks nice. yellow
was to have been the jubilee color, but it.
noisier sister tint has clbtNyed 1t out .
placc.-Homr journal.
, 1887-07-15

The temptation to take money does not
seem to leave people after they have been
handling it for a long time, as the public
generally believe. l had n case many,
many years ago. One of the clerks in
the sub-treasury came to me and said:
'Do you know that when l go into the
vault where those packages of bills are l
could thrust one in my pocket and no
body would ever know it2" He had
been with me a long while, and 1 had
always trusted him. l trusted him then;
but | knew the thought of taking some
of that money had run through his mind,
and | said would net place him in the
way Of that temptation again. So l told
him what l thought, and thereafter he
should never % into the vault unless l
accompanied NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Treas
urer in Globe-D Democrat.
, 1887-07-15
An EnterDrIsing. meIlaDI. House

W. n. Hunt can always be relied upon,
not only to carry in stock the best of
everything. but to secure the agency for
such article as have well-known merit, and
are popular with the people, thereby sus-
tanning the reputation of being always
enterprising, and ever reliable. Having
secured the agency for the celebrated DR..
Kings New Discovery for consumption,
will sell it on Il positive guarantee. 1t
will surely cure any and every affection of
throat, lungs and chest, and to show you
our confidence, we invite you to call and
get a trial bottle free.
, 1887-07-15

The islands of St Paul and st. George are
known as the seal islands, or seal breeding
islands. The male seals or bulls land uDon
these islands during May and June to take M
their positions on the "rookeriesn to await
the arrival of the female seals. which do
not come up from the sea until three weeks
later. The bulls fight fiercely among them
selves for position on the rookeries, near the
sea, and not unfrequently kill each other in
these fierce combats. The male seal is in its
full maturity at the age OF six or seven years.
in length six or seven feet, weighing from
400 TO COO pounds.
The females, or COW seals, are on an aver
age about one-sixth the size of the male, from
four to five feet long, much more shapely in
form, weighing from 60 to 100 pounds. They
are gentle in disposition and entirely devoid
of the pugilistic propensities of the male seal.
They bear their Young after the age Of three
years, and never bring forth their pups in the
water. Impelled by an accurate appreciation
of the time in which their period OF CESSATION
expires, they land upon these rookeries and
place themselves under the protection of the
male seals. The bulls Are p~olygamous in
their feelings, for they gather about them
fifteen or twenty COW seals, and it is astonish-
ing to see with what lordly supervision this
one male seal guards his harem. He keeps a
constant eye upon tine young pups and his
entire family until the close of the breeding
season, in September, when they disappear
into the sea from whence they came. Each
seal bears but a single pup at one time. She
is an indifferent mother, allowing her young
to be taken from her without the slightest
concern. The seals are never killed during
the breeding season-May and June-and the
females at all times are exempt S. Fitz-
patrick in New Orleans Times Democrat
, 1887-07-15

This new cure consists in the transfer
of disease from one person to another,
both being in a hypnotized or trance state
and a magnet acting as a medium OF
transfer. In brief, a hysterical patient is
thrown into the hysterical state and
placed near a magnet; another person is
then thrown into the same state. In a
few minutes, the operator directing the
transfer, the hysterical indications de-
velop in the second person. This is re-
peated frequently, and each time the
hysterical disorder of the patient grows
weaker, until at last it disappears. Re
ligio-Philosophical Journal.
, 1887-07-15
WHAT / KNOW.

know the summers day is sweet;
know that love is sweeter still;
know that bliss is ne'er complete;
know of no perpetual i'll.
know that life has many sides;
That some things here seem hardly meet;
know that baseness often rides,
While virtue walks with weary feet;
Yet often want and wealth, I know,
But for each others mask have stood;
And men, 1 know, where'er we go, =
Are mostly happy when they're good;
know that life, upon the whole,
Is well worth all we have to give;
And that the grander is the goal,
So much the grander tits to live.
know that death is very nigh;
That evil shrinks before his breath;
That only goodness gives 'goodby"
A rainbow in the cloud of death.
-Wilfred b. Woollam in C~assell's Magazine.
, 1887-07-15

Geo. F. Morgan, Geo. w. Sewers,
A. Martin, Prof. Mark Birmingham.
Alex. II. Swan and w. II. Swan, left fol-
the Manhattan mining districtin Colorado
yesterday. The gentlemen visit the camr
in the interests of the Manhattan Reduc.
ton company, a corporation recently or.
ganized and composed of Cheyenne men.
While absent they will select a site for
the smelling establishment which they
propose to erect.
, 1887-07-15

Natural phenomena are always capable
of distortion to the uneducated eye. Thus
many of the inhabitants of the Congo
basin are able to prove to their own salts
faction that white people live at the bot
tom of the sea.
They adduce the fact that when a for
eign vessel appears off the coast the tops
of her masts are first visible, then her
sails, and finally her hull. When she
sails away the phenomenon is reversed.
Plainly, therefore, European ships come
up from the bottom of the sea and return
thither youths Companion.